Plaiting-machine.



PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

F. E. WARNER. PLAITING MAGHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1907.

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FRANK EDWIN WARNER, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

' PLAITING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14:, 1908.

Application filed September 25- 1907- Serial No. 394552.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK EDWIN WAR- NER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plaiting- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hand plaiting machines in which material to be plaited is folded backward and forward over thin, flat strips, being securely held in plaited position until, by pressure, the plaits have been set, after which the strips can be removed and the plaited material removed from the machine.

My principal objects are to construct the device so that the plaits will be uniform and no machine marks will be left in the plaited goods.

I attain my objects in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my plaiter with a piece of goods therein; Fig. 2 a frag mentary, sectional view of the structure of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 a View of one of my plaiter blades.

The frame is of any desired size and shape and comprises a bed 1, which may be padded, having strips 2 and 3 along opposite edges. These strips are provided with a series of rectangular apertures 4, 4', 4 etc. of such size as to snugly contain a pair of plaiting strips thereby preventing their revolution or motion and insuring regular plaiting. Thin, flat plaiting strips 5, 5, 5, etc. are proportioned to extend across the frame and occupy substantially the full width of the apertures, 4, 4t, 4, etc.

In use the material to be plaited is laid on the bed 1 and a strip 5 is placed over it and in a pair of opposed apertures in the edge strips 2 and 3, the material being then folded back over the strip and on itself. The second strip is then placed on top of the material in the same pair of opposed apertures. The material is now folded over the second strip and laid along the bed in its original direction. The third strip is then placed over the goods and through the next succeeding pair of opposed apertures and the material folded back over the strip and on itself. A fourth strip is then placed over the material and in the second pair of apertures and the material folded back over the fourth strip. These operations are repeated until all the material has been folded around-pairs of plaiting strips. A hot iron is then pressed on the folded material until it has acquired a set which holds the folds or plaits after which the plaiting strips may be removed from the machine and the plaited material taken out. As the plaiting strips are of very thin mate rial (spring steel in practice) they do not mark the material while it is being pressed. I am aware that round wires have been used in machines of the same general nature but such devices have not permitted the successful use of a hot iron to set the folds and they do not produce the sharply defined folds that the thin edges of the flat strips do. WVires are also impracticable in connection with very wide frames on account of bending and springing. The flat strips receive the pull in the direction of their width and do not yield.

I claim A plaiting machine comprising a bed rectangularly-apertured strips along opposite edges thereof; thin, flat plaiting strips, uniform in length, breadth and thickness, pairs of which are adapted to detachably engage and substantially fill, opposed apertures in the side strips, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have afliXed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK EDI/VIN WARNER. Witnesses KATHERINE E. TURNER, VERE H. MULTER. 

